Singapore has banned Mufti Ismail Menk, a renowned Islamic preacher, from entering the city-state, with the government contending that his views promote religious discord. Menk, a Zimbabwean preacher with more than two million followers on Twitter, and Haslin bin Baharim, a Malaysian ...

An establishment figure has been named Singapore's first female president after a "walkover" election that saw no vote after no other contenders ran for the position. Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament from the Muslim Malay minority, did not have to face an election for the...

Story highlights Girls and women from Myanmar continue to work illegally as maids in Singapore About 240,000 foreign maids work in Singaporean homes In 2016, 272 maids sought help in a shelter, up from 155 in 2015 Girls from Myanmar , some as young as 15, continue to work illegally as...

In 2005, Randy Brito, aged 14, and his family fled Venezuela. Back then, the country's oil-based economy was still booming. But under President Hugo Chavez's socialist agenda, widespread nationalisations and takeovers of private enterprises compelled many middle-class families such as...

Companies arming the world's navies have been displaying their latest technology in a major maritime defence show in Singapore . The Asia-Pacific region accounts for a third of global defence spending, and demand for new military hardware is likely to grow. Al Jazeera's Scott Heidler ...

Story highlights 50 percent of the world's population now live in cities In 2016, Singapore's population of 5.5 million produced 7.5 million tonnes of waste More than 80 percent of food consumed in Singapore is imported Vertical farms can produce up to 2 tonnes of vegetables in a sing...

A Singaporean teenage blogger who was jailed twice for his online posts insulting his government was granted asylum to remain in the United States, an immigration judge in Chicago ruled. Amos Yee was jailed in 2015 for four weeks for hurting the religious feelings of Christians and po...

The Chinese diaspora in Singapore, who arrived as immigrants from the southern Chinese provinces during the late 19th century, ironically preserved many elements of Chinese puppet theatre that have become almost extinct in their country of origin due to the brutal effects of the Cultu...